Grab a Book

One day, as I was preparing dinner while entertaining a sleepy Macie, watching Ephram zip around the kitchen and listening to Charlie's its-too-loud-in-here-so-I'll-make-it-louder-by-yelling-a-bunch voice, I had an idea.

"Ephram, it looks like Macie wants to listen to a book!  Can you please go choose a book for me to read for her?"

He nodded his head with excitement and zipped off to the bookshelf on his trusty truck.  I turned around and kept working on the tacos I was trying to make.  A minute later, or maybe two, I turned around to find...

That Ephram is a big helper.  This also shows just how fast he can zip around, to assemble such a pile so quickly!

"I know!  Charlie, why don't you read a book to Macie?"

A pause in the yelling, finally.  Charlie looked at me and processed it for a moment, got a big smile on his face and said, "Okay!"

He sat down and took the book off of the top and proceeded to read it to Macie.  Unfortunately, Ephram didn't appreciate his brother crowding his hero effort.

Fortunately, he listened when I said that there were plenty of books for both of them to read to Macie.

Suddenly all I could hear were the much more quiet words of Charlie reading the Velveteen Rabbit, Ephram's funny pretend-story-telling pitchy talk, and Macie's adorable babbling.

There is no better accompaniment when making tacos.